There is nothing comparable to music for bringing us together. Memories, so vivid as to allow us to recall exactly what we were doing and how we felt, are so often evoked by a song that was sung at that particular place and time. Just hearing that melody brings us back to a moment in the past, defines the present and gives us hope for the future.

The ancient Hermetic tradition says that all is vibration. Modern science now confirms that our universe is a wave function, a frequency, a rhythm of life, resonating within us all. Our world is made of music, both literally and lyrically. Pythagoras once counseled that even stones are frozen music.

Teams have their motivational songs. Nations have their anthems. Cultures crave their unique expression in musical style. Music moves us all to cooperate for the good of the whole.

Aikido master George Leonard once said: “At the root of all power and motion, at the burning center of existence itself, there is music and rhythm, the play of patterned frequencies against the matrix of time… a humanity without music is not just inconceivable; it is impossible.”

As individuals we play the instruments of separate selves in isolation, but in groups of humanity we play our parts in a symphony that produces the harmonic resonance of one state of being. Some sing high, some sing low, and harmony is created in between. Music is the pulse of creation, the emotion of the mind set in action. Music, more than anything we shall ever know, brings us together as one.

The songs compiled on this album were composed for the simple purpose of helping us to join forces with the spirit of Greenheart: showing our love and respect for planet earth and all its inhabitants, living together as one. May it be music to your ears.

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Barefoot Doctor enjoyed a mystically oriented childhood, studied Aikido, energy healing and meditation at age 11, studied yoga, Tai Chi in his late teens, the human psyche and how to approach it with RD Laing in his early 20s.

Shamanism living with the Native Americans for four years in New Mexico and acupuncture and Taoism in his mid- to late -twenties, returned to London in ’83, ran a busy acupuncture healing practice till 2000, while also doing experimental performance events, workshops, seminars and talks, making healing music and teaching Tai Chi and meditation.